Mud Hutters

As well as The Diagram Brothers, and Dislocation Dance, Andy Diagram was in The Mud Hutters, a lo-fi prog-punk combo who could obviously play their instruments. Mud Hutters and Dislocation Dance were part of the Manchester Musicians Collective, and toured the UK on the "I Like Shopping" tour with Diagram Brothers, Decorators, Ludus, and Eric Random. Mud Hutters later formed into Spaceheads along with Andy Diagram. 

 

Their music is a clanking, jammy post-punk/UK-DIY. It takes some loutish manner of a James Chance, but substitutes his NY funk with rainy dub in the vain of Public Image Ltd as well as plenty of off-key basement rocking and jerking. The sound esthetics occasionally border on lo-fi, kind of industrial-esque stunts, but also have poppier, more playful and down-home moments. Great, adventurous music, that shows what could happen in early '80s UK subculture. [SOURCE: RATE YOUR MUSIC]